Dispenser



sept- 11. 1940. QWQWA'RD 2,21 2

DISPENSER INVENTOR,

ATTORNEYS I Patented Sept. 17, 1940 I UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE DISPENSER Charles W. Ward, Los Angeles, Calif.

Application May 29, 1939, Serial No. 276,395

2 Claims. (Cl. 221-60) I This invention relates to dispensers, and partending outwardly in a horizontal position from ticularly to a device for dispensing tooth paste, such support. To the under side of the bracket shaving cream, and the like; from a tube conarm 3, at the outer end thereof, are secured a flat tainer. U-sharied spring 6 and an inverted yoke 'l, by I The general object of the invention is to promeans of rivets 8, one member 9 of said spring 5 vide a device in which a commercial tube of being positioned between the under side of the tooth paste, shaving cream, or the like, may be bracket arm 3 and the upper side of the cross mounted, upon removing the cap of the tube, member ID, of yoke 'l, with the other free and whereby the tube will be automatically closed resilient member ll of said spring extending rear- 10 when released and not in use, but may be readily wardly under said yoke cross-member I0 and 10 grasped and swung into a dispensing position and between the yoke arms l2 depending from said thereby opened, for dispensing its contents, while cross member, so that the rivets 8 extend through held and compressed by ones hand. the bracket arm 3, spring member 9, and yoke With the above and other objects in view, the cross member ID for securing the spring 6 and invention consists in the novel and useful proyoke l to said bracket arm as aforesaid. Bel5 vision, formation, construction, and relative artween and to the arms [2 of the yoke I is pivoted rangement of parts, members and features, all a dispensing nozzle [3 by means of trunnions II as shown in certain embodiments in the accomextending from opposite sides of the lower porpanying drawing, described generally, and more tion of said nozzle through openings I 5 in the particularly pointed out in the claims. lower portion of said yoke arms. The nozzle l3 :0

Inthe drawing: is formed with a threaded socket l8 in its inlet Figure 1 is a perspective of my dispensing deend [6 and with a-discharge duct l9 leading from vice mounted on a wall and showing a tube of the inner end of said socket through the outlet tooth paste mounted therein and suspended in end I! of said nozzle.

its position when not in use, with its nipple closed The operation, uses and advantages of my in- 35 by the device, vention are as follows:

Figure 2 is a side elevation of my dispensing The screw cap of a tube 20 containing tooth device with a tube of tooth paste mounted therepaste, shaving cream, or the like, is first removed in, and shown swung into its dispensing position, from the threaded nipple 2| of said tube and with its nipple open and a portion of the tooth said nipple is screw-seated in the threaded socket 30 paste being extruded from the tube through said I8 in the inlet end of the pivoted nozzle i3, so nipple, that upon releasing said tube, its weight will Figure 3 is a view partly in vertical section and swing said tube and nozzle on the nozzle trunpartly in rear elevation of my dispensing device nions it into a vertical position with he outlet taken on line 3-3 of Figure 2, end ll of said nozzle engaging the under side of 35 Figure 4 is a fragmentary elevation of a comthe resilient member ll of spring 6 and said mercial tube of tooth paste or shaving cream, member closing d u t d f said nozzle, as with its screw cap removed from its threaded illustrated in Figure 1 of the drawing, in which nipple, I position the tube 20 and nozzle l3 remain, except 0 Figure 5 is a perspective of a modification of when the contents of the tube are dispensed. my invention, and, To dispense the tooth paste, shaving cream, or Figure 6 is a horizontal section taken on line t e l e, o the tube Said tube is ped 66 of Figure 5. by ones hand and is swung, together with the Referring more particularly tothe drawing, in nozzle i3, on the nozzle trunnions i4, into a powhich corresponding parts are designated by the sition as shown in Figure 2, and upon squeezing 5 same reference characters in all of the figures, the tube y the hand, in the usual manner. the l designates an angle bracket formed with a tooth paste, shaving cream, or the like, will be vertical arm 2 and a horizontal arm 3, which extruded and dispensed from the tube through bracket may be secured in a convenient position the outlet end ll of saidnozzle 20, as indicated 5 for use, to any suitable support, such as'a wall, at 22.

window frame or door frame, by means of screws After dispensing any of the contents of the d driven through openings 5 in the bracket arm tube 20, the tube is released and it swings, to- 3, into such support, to secure said arm to such gether with the nozzle l3, back into its normal support in a vertical position, with arm 3 of said vertical position, as shown in Figure 1 and as bracket at the upper end of said arm 2 and exabove described.

With the use of my invention, the tube 20 is kept in one known place and is automatically closed and kept closed at all times, the contents of the tube are dispensed therefrom, and there is no possibility of the tube being lost or laid down with'its cap of! and the contents of the tube exposed to dirta'nd germs from the atmosphere.

In the modification of my invention shown in Figures and 6, the construction is the same as above described, except that the nozzle 13 is eliminated and a split band clamp 23 is substituted for said nozzle, which clamp is formed with a pair of diametrical trunnions 24, journaled in the lower ends of the yoke arms l2, and with a pair of lugs 25 and 26 outstanding from the clamp ends respectively, through which lugs extend a,

thumb screw 21 threaded in the lug 28.

Upon removing the cap of thetube 20, the

upper end of the tube-is clamped in the clamp 23 by turning the screw 21, so that upon releas ing the tube it will swing into a vertical position and the upper end of its nipple 2| will engage and be closed by the lower spring member H, as shown in Figure 5. Upon swinging the tube upwardly, its nipple 2i will disengage said spring except when vin springengagement to close the outlet. 7 2. A dispenser as disclosed, comprising a supporting bracket. a resilient vU-shaped flat spring having one'of the U portions secured to said bracket, an inverted yoke carried by the bracket and straddling a portion of the U-shaped flat spring, and a dispensing nozzle inversely pivoted in said yoke and adapted to have its outlet end in engagement with a member of said U-shaped spring when said nozzle has attached thereto a tube of merchandise depending from said nozzle.

CHARLES W. WARD. 

